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Story by: Jack Foley
STEVEN Spielberg has announced that he is to make a film about
the kidnap and murder of 11 Israeli athletes, at the 1972 Olympics.
The Oscar-winning director is reportedly seeking Sir Ben Kingsley
for the drama, which will start filming in June, according to
a spokeswoman for his Dreamworks studio.
The Israeli athletes in question died after being taken hostage
by Palestinian activists at the 1972 Summer games, in Munich,
and the story has already been the subject of the Oscar-winning
documentary, One Day in September, which was directed by Kevin
Macdonald in 2000.
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The Dreamworks spokeswoman went on to say that details of the
project had deliberately been kept shrouded in secrecy, while
Spielberg picked out European locations for the production.
But the screenplay is rumoured to be written by Eric Roth, who
won an Oscar for his Forrest Gump script, and was nominated for
The Insider.
If Spielberg is successful in luring Sir Ben Kingsley to the
project, it will mark the second time they have worked together,
following the British actor’s critically-acclaimed turn in
Schindler’s List
(which was recently made available on DVD for the first time).
The film will be released by Universal and overseen by Dreamworks,
although no specific release date has been set.
In what is proving to be a busy period for the blockbuster director,
he has also announced intentions to update the classic science
fiction tale, War of the Worlds, possibly with Tom Cruise.
And his latest movie, The Terminal,
is due out in June, and features Tom Hanks as a Russian immigrant
stranded in a US airport, who forms a relationship with Catherine
Zeta-Jones’ flight attendant.
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